Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting 9.0.4

About

Contains the .NET Generic Host HostBuilder which layers on the Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.Abstractions package.

Key Features

Contains the .NET Generic Host HostBuilder.

How to Use

For a console app project:

    using (IHost host = new HostBuilder().Build())
    {
        var lifetime = host.Services.GetRequiredService<IHostApplicationLifetime>();
    
        lifetime.ApplicationStarted.Register(() =>
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Started");
        });
        lifetime.ApplicationStopping.Register(() =>
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Stopping firing");
            Console.WriteLine("Stopping end");
        });
        lifetime.ApplicationStopped.Register(() =>
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Stopped firing");
            Console.WriteLine("Stopped end");
        });
    
        host.Start();
    
        // Listens for Ctrl+C.
        host.WaitForShutdown();
    }

Main Types

The main types provided by this library are:

Microsoft.Extensions.Host.
Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.HostApplicationBuilder
Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.HostBuilder
Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.IHostedService
Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.IHostedLifecycleService

Additional Documentation

Generic host
API documentation

Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration
Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection
Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.Abstractions
Microsoft.Extensions.Logging
Microsoft.Extensions.Options

Feedback & Contributing

Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting is released as open source under the MIT license. Bug reports and contributions are welcome at the GitHub repository.

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Aspire.Hosting Core abstractions for the .NET Aspire application model.	1
Aspire.Hosting Core abstractions for the .NET Aspire application model.	77
Aspire.Hosting.AppHost Core library and MSBuild logic for .NET Aspire AppHost projects.	1
Aspire.Hosting.AppHost Core library and MSBuild logic for .NET Aspire AppHost projects.	77
Aspire.Hosting.RabbitMQ RabbitMQ support for .NET Aspire.	1
Aspire.Hosting.RabbitMQ RabbitMQ support for .NET Aspire.	79
Aspire.Hosting.Redis Redis® support for .NET Aspire.	2
Aspire.Hosting.Redis Redis® support for .NET Aspire.	77
Aspire.Hosting.SqlServer Microsoft SQL Server support for .NET Aspire.	2
Aspire.Hosting.SqlServer Microsoft SQL Server support for .NET Aspire.	77
Loupe.Agent.Core.Services Loupe Agent Common Services - Shared configuration library for technology-specific agents built on top of the Loupe Agent for .NET Core.	106
Loupe.Extensions.Logging Implements Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions for the Loupe Agent for .NET Core (Loupe.Agent.Core)	420
Loupe.Extensions.Logging Implements Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions for the Loupe Agent for .NET Core (Loupe.Agent.Core)	609
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Testing Support for writing functional tests for MVC applications. This package was built from the source code at https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore/tree/8899cb30120d41413065f1b1465cdabefe0a1f9c	1
Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.WindowsServices .NET hosting infrastructure for Windows Services.	585
Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.WindowsServices .NET hosting infrastructure for Windows Services.	605
Microsoft.Identity.Web This package enables ASP.NET Core web apps and web APIs to use the Microsoft identity platform (formerly Azure AD v2.0). This package is specifically used for web applications, which sign-in users, and protected web APIs, which optionally call downstream web APIs.	1
Microsoft.Identity.Web This package enables ASP.NET Core web apps and web APIs to use the Microsoft identity platform (formerly Azure AD v2.0). This package is specifically used for web applications, which sign-in users, and protected web APIs, which optionally call downstream web APIs.	32
Microsoft.Identity.Web This package enables ASP.NET Core web apps and web APIs to use the Microsoft identity platform (formerly Azure AD v2.0). This package is specifically used for web applications, which sign-in users, and protected web APIs, which optionally call downstream web APIs.	36

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Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting 9.0.4

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About

Key Features

How to Use

Main Types

Additional Documentation

Related Packages

Feedback & Contributing

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Dependencies

.NET Framework 4.6.2

.NET 8.0

.NET 9.0

.NET Standard 2.0

.NET Standard 2.1

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